Beginning in the late 90s there was a movement in certain medical circles to undertake to perform testicle transplants for those that may have lost theirs to disease, accidents, assaults, etc. I remember reading that in Britain in the late 90s some of these operations were quite successful.

Please help me with my ignorance: I wonder what the status and availability of this technology is now. Can anyone bring myself and others on this forum up-to-date? Are there sites that discuss this matter in an informed, non-judgmental manner?

If these kind of transplants are available, I wonder if there might be a need for a repository where the need for and the availability of living testicles information might be accessible.

There are those on this forum who involuntarily lost their testicles, and some who wish to give theirs up. This seems to be an opportunity to provide an exchange that would benefit both parties.

Why should someone wanting a testicle implant have to wait for a potential donor's death when a willing live donor might be available?

Transplant is a slightly misleading term. The recent articles I can find on the web speak of removing tissue before chemotherapy and replacing it afterwards.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3032804.stm

Men facing cancer treatment may not have to rely on a limited supply of frozen sperm to have children, as doctors hail the success of putting testicle tissue in storage instead.

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=16560

A medical first was achieved at The Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK, when a man who received a testicle transplant fathered his first post-op child. A return to fertility in transplant patients, was, until now, unheard of.

This represents good news for those men who become sterile through Chemo or Radio therapies during Cancer treatment.

I know of only ONE successful testicle transplant to date that has resulted in fertility, and that was between identical twins. It is discussed on an earlier thread here on the Archive:

http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=12844

Since the genetic composition of the testicle remains the same after the transplant as it was before, any children produced by a transplanted testicle would, of course, be the biological offspring of the original testicle donor, not the recipient.

The surgeon who did my Orchiectomy was very clear that this is not available and that Orcheictomy was a one way street baring sudden huge changes in the state of the art.

JesusA (imported) wrote: Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:18 pm Since the genetic composition of the testicle remains the same after the transplant as it was before, any children produced by a transplanted testicle would, of course, be the biological offspring of the original testicle donor, not the recipient.

I can imagine some intriguing child maintenance cases arising from this.

Who would be responsible for the expense of raising the child: the guy who performed the impregnation or the one who donated the testicles?

There could be a good story for the archive based on this situation.

Kortpeel

I'm the words a famous lawer might say...

He on whom the testicles sway must the child support pay



Actually I can see all sorts of possibilities storywise for testicular implantation

Wonder if somebody could put one of those heart pacemakers for one ball. And then I could probably use a blood sugar monitor for a ball. Maybe kidney function monitor as well. Perhaps an alcohol in the bloodstream ball might do some people some good. Maybe I should get all kinds of girls hanging off of me with "pheromone ball". And then maybe a "laughing track ball" would just kill some people. You pull down your pants and laugh, laugh, laugh. Or maybe a rooster crowing. Or is that the cock crowing. And then in that corner we have specials on our "ET call home ball". How about a wireless connection for your computer from where else? So do you want your balls to vibrate or do you want them to beep? We also have ones that do both. The alarm clock balls are the cheapest to get. They're very easy to adjust the time with. We can teach how and where to squeeze them. All you have to do is touch yourself and be assured that you'll wake up when you need to.

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mrt (imported) wrote: Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:35 pm The surgeon who did my Orchiectomy was very clear that this is not available and that Orcheictomy was a one way street baring sudden huge changes in the state of the art.

If a heart can be transplanted and lungs, and livers and even extremities the technical aspects of this should be fairly simple.

I would not put too much stock in what your surgeon says...

In the USA Bill Cliton signed a Bill that states that testicualr cells like leydig cells etc can not be transplanted.

t is illegal, however it is very possible to do indeed.

Especially stem cell transplants which Bush knocked down.

He had really added on top of problems we already had, I do not agree with it.

Testicualr transplants can not be done in the USA and in many other countries raises many ethcial questions.

If I had the money I would definatley get stem cells and be healed from the damage I had suffered and indeed it has shown to be effective.

Look at the Twind that Dr Silber had transplanted a testicle into the other.

Also a testicualr transplant book which is not rally sold any more can sometimes still be found I have one however I do not have the name of it.

I wish that more possibilities existed here in the USA.

IT is bad that we have such a poor medical system and poor Physicians that know such little about HRT and are years behind on Male HRT than female HRT.

Lets hope for continued progression in this subject.